linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] misc/mei: INTEL_MEI should depend on X86 or DRM

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Message-Id: <1d985068-47a7-4a25-b387-e69a74873a61@app.fastmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:53:32 +0100
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
 "Simon Richter" <Simon.Richter@...yros.de>
Cc: "Alexander Usyskin" <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>,
 "Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
 "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc/mei: INTEL_MEI should depend on X86 or DRM_XE

On Thu, Jan 29, 2026, at 09:17, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 at 05:45, Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@...yros.de> wrote:
>>
>> DRM_I915 depends on PCI && X86 (so "X86 || DRM_I915" is redundant, which
>> is why I didn't add it in my version of the patch. If DRM_I915 is useful
>> on non-x86 we might want to change that as well.
>
> Then the dependency of DRM_I915 on X86 should be dropped first...

This is not easily done, with the amount of 'select' statements
from the I915 drive, including X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES and ACPI_WMI.

At the minimum, changing this should involve turning a lot of
these into 'depends on' to avoid dependency loops, plus
build testing random configurations.

    Arnd